Germany's economic performance [electronic resource] : from unification to Euroization / edited by Jens Hölscher.
This book provides a comprehensive understanding of Germany's economic performance at the turn of the twenty-first century. The period under observation and analysis stretches from Germany's unification in 1990 over the death of the German Mark to first experiences with the euro, and with...
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction; J.H̲lscher
- Keynote Address: The Post-Reunification Economy of Germany
- Past, Present and Future; S.F. Frowen
- Aftermath of the Reunification of Germany: Remarks on the Keynote Address of Stephen F. Frowen; N. Kloten
- PART 1: MONETARY ISSUES
- Monetary Policy Transparency: A Comparison between Bundesbank/ECB and the Bank of England; I. Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal & P. Howells
- Bad for Euroland, Worse for Germany: The ECB's Record; J. Bibow
- Monetary Targeting by the German Bundesbank; W.W. Heering
- Comment; K. Soufani
- PART 2: MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
- From Initiating to Breaching to Diluting the Stability and Growth Pact; H. Feldmann
- Wages, Macroeconomic Policies and Germany's Stagnation; E. Hein & A. Truger
- Comment; W. Schelkle
- PART 3: STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENTS
- Collective Bargaining and Labour Markets; L. Funk
- Comment; E. Owen Smith
- PART 4: EAST GERMANY
- Firm-Specific Determinants of the Productivity Gaps between East and West; J. Stephan
- East Germany's Economic Transition in Comparative Perspective; M. Kaser
- PART 5: CONCLUSION
- Investment Location Germany; N. Walter.
- The post-reunification economy of Germany / Stephen F. Frowen
- Aftermath of the reunification of Germany / Norbert Kloten
- Monetary policy transparency / Iris Beifang-Frisancho Mariscal and Peter Howells
- Bad for Euroland, worse for Germany / Jorg Bibow
- Monetary targeting by the German Bundesbank / Walter W. Heering
- Comment on part I / Khaled Soufani
- From initiating to breaching to diluting the stability and growth pact / Horst Feldmann
- Macroeconomic policies, wage developments and Germany's stagnation / Eckhand Hein and Achim Truger
- Sick man of Europe or Midlife crisis in Europe / Waltraud Schelkle
- Current structural changes / Lothar Funk
- Comments on Lothar Funk's chapter / Eric Own Smith
- Lower firm specific productivity levels in East Germany and East European industrial branches / Johannes Stephan
- East Germany's economic transition in comparative perspective / Michael Kaser
- Investment in Germany / Norbert Walter.